Wedding

Pointed-Sticks In Place

Of Bulldozers

How Hagen-Gusap Road is Built

l/fICHAEL LEAHY, with his wife rl and three small sons, recently led a jeep party over the new >ad which has been constructed ider the direction of District Com issioner lan Downs between oroka and Mount Hagen in the ighlands of New Guinea. The 150iles journey occupied 12 hours.

Tien the Leahy brothers and J. L. aylor first discovered this country rer 20 years ago they took two onths to make the same journey i foot.

Mr. Leahy paid a warm tribute the work done by DC Downs, actically without equipment. He id: “This road has been made th nothing much more than inted sticks and bare feet.”

One now may travel on a rough ad from Mt. Hagen eastwards to oroka, and 100 miles beyond to isap. At Gusap this long-planned jin highway for the Highlands 11 fork—one branch continuing stwards to Lae and the other go ? generally to the northwards rough the Ramu country and wn to Madang.

Windsor Perry

Wedding

Mr. Ken Windsor, radio - officer and purser of the Islands ship Maui Pomare, was married recently in Wellington, NZ, to Miss Jocelyn Perry.

The best man was Mr. lan Hethering ton, formerly of the Post and Telegraph Dept., Rarotonga Cook Is.